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tailchopper
tailchopper

Reputation: 25

Get multiple api calls from a device in a single R code

I am currently retrieving some numeric data from an api of a device. The code runs perfectly without errors however NOW i want to fetch data from multiple devices in a single code i.e multiple api calls if i am not wrong. These would be more than 50 calls since there are 50 devices.

I am running the following code curently for one device :

    url <-"https://example.com/api/GetDataBynum?num=ABCDevice.device#.parameter"
    geturl <-httr::GET(url,add_headers(.headers=c('key'='')))
    apidetails1<-content(geturl,"text", encoding ="UTF-8")

#and this one for second device number and so on which is inefficient

    url2 <-"https://example.com/api/GetDataBynum?num=ABCDevice.device#.parameter"
    geturl2 <-httr::GET(url2,add_headers(.headers=c('key'='')))
    apidetails2<-content(geturl2,"text", encoding ="UTF-8")

Is there any way to run multiple apis in single code ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 611

Answers (1)

Ronak Shah
Ronak Shah

Reputation: 389135

Create a vector of url's and use it in lapply :

library(httr)
url <- sprintf('https://example.com/api/GetDataBynum?num=ABCDevice.device%s.parameter', data$dataf)

lapply(urls, function(x) {
  geturl <- GET(x,add_headers(.headers=c('key'='')))  
  content(geturl,"text", encoding ="UTF-8")
}) -> result

If you want to combine the data into one dataframe you can do result <- do.call(rbind, result).

Upvotes: 1

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